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The chi-square test is suitable for test of hypothesis dealing with categorical data. Two types of tests are provided—goodness-of-fit test and test of independence. Distributions of frequencies of different classes within two categorical variables are used to test the good fit or bad fit according to goodness-of-fit test. In the test of independence, two distributions in two categorical variables are tested whether they are related or not. Each is explained with the help of examples.
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Miah, A.Q. (2016). The Chi-Square Test. In: Applied Statistics for Social and Management Sciences. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0401-8_8
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